Back at last

It has been three years since I last posted on this blog. Those three years have been very active. In the 2010, with my good friend Jim Torbert, I founded the Atlantic Centre for Contemplative Scienc and Technology, a non-profit charitable organization in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The website is: http://accsat.org

The ACCSAT is dedicated to supporting and studying the application of contemplative concepts and practices in the institutions of secular society. To date we have forty faculty members, all of who are working in this field in one way or another.

My involvement with ACCSAT provides an opportunity to bring together the two main themes of my life work, mental disorder and contemplative practice.

A number of initiatives have arisen from the ACCSAT. In upcoming postings I will describe some of them. The most relevant for this blog is a series of workshop, entitled "Achieving a Sense of Mastery: Using mindfulness and contemplation to support recovery from mental disorder".

Overall, I hope this blog can provide one means of communication on the very inspiring and growing influence that meditation and contemplation are having in trying to address the current crisis in western societies.

Thanks for listening....dave